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Damn, you are excited about election day. You are worked up about one of the candidates, either extremely for or extremely against them, and you are prepared. And so you will go to the polling place, stand in line if need be, walk confidently into the booth, push the buttons for the President, Governor, or Senator that you have been waiting to cast your vote for, and then...

You stare, bewildered, at the long list of names below the ones you care about. They are the candidates for state house districts, county commissioners, judges, etc., and what they have in common is that you don't know a single thing about them. So you:

Vote the straight party ticket (if you are so inclined) Select names at random, or via a process where you try to recall any minor detail about the name you see in front of you, while simultaneously rationalizing your choice as something other than random. Punt. Walk away. You roll-off, to use the terminology of those in the field.

What does it all mean? Are you a bad citizen, because you didn't take the time to inform yourself? Are you a good citizen, because you either made the effort to cast votes for the down-ballot candidates, or because you abstained from voting while uninformed? What does it mean for our system of government- when it is so obvious that winners are, in something probably approaching 99% of cases, determined by luck and happenstance rather than any sort of objective assessment of their character, positions, and aptitude by the wide mass of the electorate?

I'm sorry to say, at VOHTE we don't have the answers to those questions. What we do have is a stance: Every citizen should vote, and every citizen should be an informed voter. And so we created the tools to make that a virtually painless process. Our ballot selection tool at vohte.com lets you input your address and see which candidates you will be selecting from on election day. From there you can view content that comes directly from them (or their campaign), and our patent-protected process ensures that you are getting authentic information, from a verified source. No third-party attack ads. No fake news.

So check it out. Check it three months prior to election day, or check it the day prior. Check it while you are standing in line, or even check it while you are in the voting booth. Just get informed.

No excuses!